On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 12:57:50 PM EST, Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:

On 2025-01-28 17:08:49 +0000 (+0000), Albert Braden wrote:
> Is anyone manning the openstack-discuss-owner mailbox? I've been
> writing to that address about the recent glitch that deleted my
> list subscription and account (and according to the error message,
> hundreds of others), but I'm not getting a response.

I am, but it looks like you replied to a VERP bounce address for a
probe instead, which merely caused Mailman to mark the message you
were replying to as bounced back. This functionality is intended to
catch subscriber addresses which have become defunct, and disable
delivery for them.

The earlier bounce which was quoted as an example in the probe was
due to an unfortunate interaction with an MUA that sent a message
with overly-long lines and the MTA on the list server rejecting
Mailman's attempt to forward that message to other subscribers. I'm
hoping we can get that underlying issue that caused the earlier
bounces fixed shortly with https://review.opendev.org/940248 but
still, subscriptions should only get disabled if a message is
returned to the VERP address of a subsequent probe message (the ones
that say "this is a probe...here's a copy of an earlier bounce which
caused this probe to be sent to you").

Messages to the actual openstack-discuss-owner@lists.openstack.org
address are delivered directly to the list administrators, and
should not result in subscriptions getting their delivery disabled.
--
Jeremy Stanley